At least 6 female teachers arrested for sexual misconduct with students over two days across US

At least six female teachers were arrested in a span of two days this week for having sex with students — including a Kentucky staffer who allegedly had trysts with a pair of 16-year-old boys.

Ellen Shell, 38, of Danville, was arraigned in Garrard County District Court on Thursday after prosecutors said she had sex with the teens on two separate occasions in July and August of last year.

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Kenya chess: Male player dons disguise to compete as woman

How could they tell?

It was a bold gambit by the 25-year-old Kenyan chess player to disguise himself as a woman to compete in his country’s female open chess tournament.

Dressed head to toe in a burka and wearing spectacles, Stanley Omondi had registered himself as Millicent Awour.

But Omondi’s daring move was exposed as the organisers got suspicious by the unknown player’s success.

 

h/t Sweetpea

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Canadian MP upset CSIS knew about his meetings with dodgy diplomat

Canadian MP felt ‘shadow of doubt’ after spy agency warned him about diplomat

A veteran Canadian MP met three times with the ambassador of a country in the crosshairs of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, leading CSIS to warn the parliamentarian away from further interactions, CBC News has learned.

“You just cast a shadow of doubt over everyone,” the MP said, speaking confidentially because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.

“Once you have that doubt placed on you, I don’t know how you recover.”

CBC News is not identifying the country in question in order to protect the MP’s identity.

CBC and the MP seem to suggest CSIS was out of line by doing their job.

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Trudeau Foundation ‘collateral damage’ of Poilievre’s partisan attacks, says Oil Can Harry

The former Liberal cabinet minister who oversaw the creation of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation claims Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is engaging in “ignorant, irresponsible and highly partisan” attacks.

Poilievre called for an investigation into the foundation earlier this week, posting on Twitter about a need to know who “got rich” as a result of donations to the foundation, as well as “who got paid and who got privilege.”

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Parents Say They Weren’t Notified After Trans Teacher Allegedly Threatened To Shoot Up School

Cross-dresser ran Tutu race

Parents of students at Fox Chapel Middle School in Hernando County, Florida, are demanding answers from the district after a teacher made concerning comments allegedly made about harming children and themselves. Although the district investigated the comments and found them concerning, the teacher was not fired and is back in the classroom.

h/t XC

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Protest Surrounds Toronto School’s Drag Performance for Pink Shirt Day

A Toronto District School Board (TDSB) school hosted a performance by a drag star, leading protesters and counterprotesters to gather outside.

The performance was part of an assembly at York Mills Collegiate Institute on April 12 for Pink Shirt Day, a day to raise awareness about bullying. Some have taken the day as an occasion to focus on bullying against LGBTQ+ people specifically.

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Starbucks Does It Again With Oleato

The media is lampooning Starbucks for its biological miscalculation.

What can you say about a 52-year-old multinational behemoth that caused intestinal distress in its clientele? That it didn’t test the product first?

In Italy in February, Starbucks introduced a new suite of products named Oleato. Speaking with near-cosmic euphoria, interim CEO Howard Schultz gushed over “ the next revolution in coffee that brings together an alchemy of nature’s finest ingredients – Starbucks arabica coffee beans and Partanna cold pressed extra virgin olive oil.”

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Netflix Debuts Cleopatra Docuseries Trailer Depicting the Queen as Black

I’m rooting for the Asp.

A documentary on the life and tumultuous times of Queen Cleopatra is on the horizon for Netflix with the planned docuseries veering from accepted historical wisdom by changing the subject’s ethnicity. The documentary appears to propose the case Cleopatra was a black woman with several of the commentators featured in the film arguing Cleopatra could potentially be of African descent instead of Greek.

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